Encounter new objects on view and rediscover highlights of the UMFA's robust European collection in a new context. Galleries have been reorganized to explore the transmission of artistic ideas and styles throughout the Continent and across the Atlantic Ocean.

More than eighty European paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints are organized into four sections exploring the progression and practice of making art: the importance of sacred subject matter from the fifteenth until the early eighteenth century; the proliferation of secular subject matter—allegorical and historical scenes, portraiture, genre scenes, landscape paintings, and still lifes—in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries; the influence of the French Academy from its establishment in the mid-seventeenth century through the late nineteenth century; and the artistic challenges made to the conventions and ideals of European academies in the nineteenth century.